The exact
nature of heaven is never described in the catechism. However, the text does stress that the
redeemed will "'see him [God] as he is,' face to face."
This
connects with the primary theme of The Cloud of Unknowing, which says that
God is ultimately indescribable. As the text says in the sixth chapter:
For of all other creatures and their works, yea, and of the works of
God's self, may a man through grace have full head of knowing, and well he can think of them:
but of God Himself can no man think.And therefore I would leave all that
thing that I can think, and choose to my love that thing that I cannot think. For why; He may
well be loved, but not thought. By love may He be...
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